What that has to do with anything, I dont know...lol...suffice to say it has been raining heavily, for 6 days !Yes...I know it is the rainy season, but this is something else!

I LOVE the rainy season....hot, humid days, followed by thunder, lightning & torrential rain, late afternoon, for a couple of hours...now & again it will rain in the morning & during the night, but mostly you can set your clock by the afternoon storms...The ozone in the air leaves everything smelling fresh, clean & alive after the storm...wonderful!

But this....rain, rain, rain, all day & all night....steady rain, interspersed with torrential storms...thunder so loud it shakes the buildings, lightning flashing constantly, lighting up the city like an xray film...the clouds so low it is like twilight in the middle of the day...the electricity going on & off for hours at a time....Initially quite exciting, but wears thin quickly....sigh...SIX bloody days! Enough already!

What is happening is that we are on the edge of a tropical typhoon that is battering central Vietnam, North Cambodia & Laos....those poor buggers are doing it hard, with extreme flooding (a number of lives have been lost)...

The flooding here has been bad enough....this is Bui Vien St, at the end of our alley, a couple of nights ago...

I waded out into it, to get to the convenience store for drinks & snacks....worrying the whole time about WHAT was in the water...I'm NOT precious about germs, but the sewage system is not great here, & I probably would have freaked out if I had seen poo's floating past...LOLLuckily, I didnt look too closely, & a hot shower with plenty of scrubbing made me feel better....

The guy at the store also told me many of the open fronted restaurants & shops had had dozens of half drowned RATS pouring in, looking for higher ground....Again...I'm not afraid of rats, but the thought they may see wading me, as higher ground, seemed a rather more close encounter than I would like...LMAOThankfully the water was ratless at that moment....

Luckily, our alley runs slightly downhill, so we havent had flooding, just a small stream rushing past the front door....the alley is so narrow, that I have been able to stand on the steps, & lean across to receive food from the food cart opposite...lol

It is NOT raining this morning, & some blue sky is peeping through, so hopefully the worst is over!